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"History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes."

If you're not aware of what's going on Aftermath have an excellent write-up:
https://aftermath.site/sweet-baby-detected-conspiracy-theory-steam

Currently another right-wing harassment campaign is raging and it keeps escalating, drawing wider circles every day. At the heart is a small consultancy company, called Sweet Baby Inc. They are accused of "destroying games with diversity and inclusivity". It is - of course - conspiratorial nonsense, the company isn't even doing what the chuds accuse them of. The fake outrage is yet again a pretext to spout hate and revel in sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia.

If all of this feels familiar to those who have been around the last time, that's because it is: 2024's Gators have fully the moniker of "GamerGate 2.0"

In the tenth year since GamerGate, we're seeing a repeat of it in the harassment campaign against narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc. The same forces that set off the initial one have changed their language and targets, but the reactionary current is back, only strengthened in the intervening years, and still enabled by a corporate class that cares more about profit margins than worker well being.

This campaign - like in 2014 - is a part of the larger right-wing attack against anything that their fascist ideology disapproves of. Like the last time, they choose a small group to punish and harass in order to send a wider message. This needs to be stopped. But what we get instead is yet another failure of management class: Valve and Discord who own the platforms where (currently) the majority of the harassment is organized, have yet to take any measure. All we can do at the moment is to support each other and oppose the fascists.

So to SBI and its workers, solidarity, always.

~ The Ghazi mod team

PPS: Free Palestine

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The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

Archived: https://archive.is/RyzzV

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The TikToker who fell in love with her psychiatrist made headlines for all the wrong reasons—but more and more, I saw a growing chorus of content creators who were asking people to stop, think, and scroll away.

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After a confusing few days of moderation, the trans community on Bluesky fears they’re being targeted for posts wishing ill on the anti-trans billionaire.

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Is YouTube secretly applying an AI filter to Shorts without telling creators? I recently noticed my videos looked strange and smeary on YouTube compared to Instagram, almost like a cheap deep fake. In this video, I investigate what's going on and why I believe it's a massive problem for everyone on this platform.

After talking with Rick Beato and seeing discussions on Reddit about the same "oil painting" effect on videos from creators like Hank Green, it's clear there is some kind of non-consensual AI upscaling being applied to our content. For me, this is a huge issue that threatens to erode the most important thing a creator has: the trust of their audience.

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Age verification isn't just for adult websites.

Archived: https://archive.is/o9o44

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Night City's urban design highlights the problems, and solutions, real cities deal with around walkability, housing, and mixed-use areas

Archived version: https://archive.is/wngjG

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The dichotomy of Hibari as both a progressive trans narrative and an ignorant product of its time showcases Japan's complicated relationship with trans women and other marginalized groups.

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The high school romance in the popular yuri anime WataNare is as fraught and messy as queer dating is in real life.

Archived: https://archive.ph/zXlR4

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In the aftermath of our Disco Elysium documentary in 2023, so much has now happened. It's time we talked about it.

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Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

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An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex, race and celebrities.

Archived version: https://archive.is/TCNXG

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“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

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"We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide"

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A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list.

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Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

Archived: https://archive.is/4Ud0I

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As gamers and developers push back against payment networks who are enforcing new adult content policies on Steam and Itch, RPS gets some insight from experts.

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It was never a prank.

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VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

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Has any game been as out of step with the time as Battlefield 6, which depicts the U.S. as a victim instead of an aggressor?

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I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

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The Defense Department operates slot machines on US military bases overseas, raising tens of millions of dollars to fund recreation for troops—and creating risks for soldiers prone to gambling addiction.

Archived version: https://archive.is/AJeu6

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If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circles of outdoor and adventure sports, environmental and conservation sciences, and nonfiction storytelling, it’s a touchstone. The parent festival has been […]

Archived version: https://archive.is/KgNah

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